[[e-mail]: dovecot error on boot up] (RePost)

[User Hasse]

Anyone ?
Can't belive Carmel and I are the only ones experiencing this.
If anybody found a solution, please post it

/Geir Svalland

[Carmel NY]

Post by User Hasse
Anyone ?
Can't belive Carmel and I are the only ones experiencing this.
If anybody found a solution, please post it
/Geir Svalland

This error message only appears when rebooting a system, and then it flashes
rather quickly on the screen and then disappears. Most people running mail
systems rarely reboot. I only discovered the problem because I was forced to
reboot the system. Also, although unconfirmed, it may be isolated to
FreeBSD. Therefore, I am willing to bet that most people don't even know the
phenomena even exists. In any case, it is apparently harmless.

[User Hasse]

Hello

Yes, as stated in my headline, appers on boot up.
and never seen again. Find nothing in any logfiles, and everything looks
normal and appears to function as usual.
But ..... a bit annoying :-)

/Geir

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Post by Carmel NY

Post by User Hasse
Anyone ?
Can't belive Carmel and I are the only ones experiencing this.
If anybody found a solution, please post it
/Geir Svalland

This error message only appears when rebooting a system, and then it flashes
rather quickly on the screen and then disappears. Most people running mail
systems rarely reboot. I only discovered the problem because I was forced to
reboot the system. Also, although unconfirmed, it may be isolated to
FreeBSD. Therefore, I am willing to bet that most people don't even know the
phenomena even exists. In any case, it is apparently harmless.
--
Carmel
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[Matt Smith]

Post by User Hasse
Anyone ?
Can't belive Carmel and I are the only ones experiencing this.
If anybody found a solution, please post it
/Geir Svalland

As I mentioned in a previous mail. The maintainer might not read this
mailing list and will miss all of your mails. If you want to do things
properly raise a PR for it so that the maintainer is fully aware and can
resolve it.

As it happens it looks like there is a lot of discussion about it
already going on:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225078

[Christos Chatzaras]

Hello
After latest update/upgrade I get this for me strange error on the
dovecot error:t_readlink(var/run/dovecot//dovecot.conf) failed: readlink() failed: No such file or directory
Then : Starting dovecot

What was the previous version of dovecot and what the new version?

I use dovecot-2.3.1 and there is a new version in ports tree 2.3.1_1 which I haven't upgrade yet.

Do you see this error only on your screen or it shows it in logs too? I want to try to reproduce this error and need to know if I need KVM connected to the server.

/var/run/dovecot/dovecot.conf is a link to /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

Do you have chroot for dovecot? Maybe /var/run/dovecot is not mounted yet when dovecot starts and this is the reason for this message.

[Carmel NY]

Post by Christos Chatzaras

Hello
After latest update/upgrade I get this for me strange error on the
dovecot error:t_readlink(var/run/dovecot//dovecot.conf) failed: readlink()
failed: No such file or directory Then : Starting dovecot

What was the previous version of dovecot and what the new version?
I use dovecot-2.3.1 and there is a new version in ports tree 2.3.1_1 which I
haven't upgrade yet.
Do you see this error only on your screen or it shows it in logs too? I want
to try to reproduce this error and need to know if I need KVM connected to
the server.
/var/run/dovecot/dovecot.conf is a link to /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
Do you have chroot for dovecot? Maybe /var/run/dovecot is not mounted yet
when dovecot starts and this is the reason for this message.

It only appears upon boot up; not if it is subsequently stopped and restarted.
There is no mention of the error in the dovecot logs.

I am running the latest version of dovecot and it is not chrooted.

[Christos Chatzaras]

Post by Carmel NY
It only appears upon boot up; not if it is subsequently stopped and restarted.
There is no mention of the error in the dovecot logs.

Yes the same happens to me us well.